Opinion

OPINION: OLEJEME, NSITF AND SOCIAL PROTECTION

Dr. Ngozi Olejeme possesses charm, class, beauty, elegance and a caring sensibility. Mention Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and immediately it conjures images among Nigerians of this very energetic woman. NSITF has become a leading public organization in the...

OPINION: RESCUING THE  SOUTH EAST FROM PDP INFESTATION: AN OPEN MEMO TO PRESIDENT BUHARI, APC

The emergence of Senator Ike Ekweremamdu as Deputy Senate President is indeed a challenge staring on the face of the All Progressive Congress, APC. While it is not in the overall  interest of the APC led Federal Government to allow...

OPINION: AITEO, SAHARA REPORTERS AND THE TALE OF OIL SWAP FRAUD (1)

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Recently, a Nigerian blog-Sahara Reporters devoted virtual space to a piece titled: Oil Swap Fraud: Aiteo, alleged Front for GEJ and Diezani, in Buhari’s Cross-hairs. In the piece, Aiteo is alleged to be a front for some “corrupt” activities...

OPINION: NASS POLL: AMOSUN, FAYEMI, FASHOLA’S CONSPIRACY AND TINUBU’S POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT

The sordid game that has been playing out in the National Assembly is quite interesting and heartwarming. It was a mixture of dangerous political chessgame and treachery. A fight between established Several pundits have propounded theories about Nigeria’s democracy, which...

OPINION: THE SARAKI-DOGARA COUP:  HANDS BEHIND THE SCENE

On the surface, it appears as if Senator Olubukola Saraki and his co-traveller at the lower house, Hon Yakubu Dogara, who earlier in the week emerged as the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, through...

OPINION: N’ASSEMBLY SAGA: A POLITICAL VOLCANO AND LAST MINUTE U-TURN

Our nation, in the last couple of days has been experiencing a kind of political volcano and I am really flabbergasted and lost in the deep blue sea of super sophisticated national politics. Oh yes! All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesman,...

OPINION: NASS: BETWEEN IMPOSED AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES

The triumph of a group of Senators dubbed ‘Like minds’ in the National Assembly elections which led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President and Honourable Yakubu Dogara as Speaker, House of Representatives respectively are welcome...

OPINION: HOW NIGER STATE CITIZENS LOST THEIR BESTS IN 2015

When in 2013, Mal. Mohammad Haruna, in a back column of The Daily Trust, speculated that with the marital relationship of the current Governor of Niger State, H. E. Abu S. Bello, with the former Head of State, Gen....

OPINION: BUHARI: THE TRUE NIGERIAN MACHIAVELLI

"...whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts, that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise. The reason is that nature has so...

OPINION: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY “CRISES”: SEARCHING SERIOUSLY

If you have been frantically looking out for my opinion on the recent National Assembly leadership election, you are probably searching too seriously. My only conclusion is that you must be an extremely interested party for pushing so hard...